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Coming Home to Penvennan Cove


Linn B. Halton - 2020
    But after the death of her mother, she's decided it's time to face her past and return to the place she called home. Her father needs her, and perhaps she needs him more than she's willing to admit?Tackling town gossip, home renovations and a flame from her past, it's not quite smooth sailing for Kerra. Ross is the bad boy she was meant to forget, not a man who still sets her heart aflutter. As he helps bring her dream home to life, they begin to break down the barriers that have been holding them back and in the process learn things about themselves they never thought possible.As friends old and new come together, the future in Penvennan looks bright.

Forever


Mary A. Wasowski - 2014
    Modeling part-time to pay the bills, while she earned her teaching degree, Reese Mitchell never imagined her Nana’s prediction of finding her future husband could be possible. Then she met…HIM! Walker Reed, her handsome stranger. He was sexy as sin and one look from him, she was hooked.Loving Walker was effortless. He captured her heart with one touch making Reese lose herself in him. From strangers to lovers, they became two hearts…one love. Outside forces conspire to tear their love apart leaving her to wonder if two people from different worlds should stay together?When promised “Forever” from the man who loves her, Reese is left with only one thing to do. She trusts the promises made. She believes in the happily ever after. She believes in…FOREVER.

Rhythm & Blu


S.L. Jennings - 2018
    And I played it on repeat until life’s streetlights flickered on and stole him away. Riot Blu. Top 40 f*ckboi. Paparazzi player. Trashy reality TV trainwreck. But once upon a time, he was the boy next door. Once upon a time, he was every note in every song on every mixtape he had ever made for me.Now he’s back. A lot more arrogant. A little more tortured. And more gorgeous than any memory I held dear could do justice. I know no good can come from being anywhere near him. But Seattle is only so big, and if I’m going to get the exclusive of my career, I have to swallow my pride, take that dreaded walk down memory lane and agree to his terms. Move in with him. Immerse myself in his life—the life he left me to build. And try not to fall back in love with the man who ripped my world in two.

Summertime at the Cornish Confetti Agency


Daisy James - 2020
    until the best man Noah is targeted by a loose hosepipe, the wedding rings go walk-about, and his beloved scarlet Porsche takes on a distinctly unpleasant aroma.Can Lexie and Theo uncover what’s behind the mysterious goings on, or will the Cornish Confetti Agency be forced to close its doors to the future brides and grooms of glorious Cornwall?An uplifting, feel-good story perfect for the summer holidays, and the second book in The Cornish Confetti Agency series.

Ditch Flowers


Amanda Linsmeier - 2015
    Just holding one sets Julia’s heart thumping. She’s wanted a child for so long. When she finally gets pregnant, she’s bursting to tell the world….until a checkup from the doctor confirms a miscarriage.Julia’s world feels like it’s dissolving. This second tragedy following her father-in-law’s death, shakes her and her husband Greg. To support his mother, they uproot their lives and move to Greg’s childhood home. Under the bright Midwestern sky, Julia can feel a new world and new hope beginning.But trouble comes in threes, and soon a boy shows up at Julia’s new daycare whose blue eyes and freckled face look eerily like Greg’s. Despite her love for her husband, Julia finds her thoughts haunted by the boy’s face, and she can’t shake the feeling that her husband has a secret.

You, Me and Other People


Fionnuala Kearney - 2015
    . .But what happens when you open the door and they won’t stop tumbling out?For Adam and Beth the first secret wasn’t the last, it was just the beginning. You think you can imagine the worst thing that could happen to your family, but there are some secrets that change everything. And then the question is, how can you piece together a future when your past is being rewritten?For fans of Liane Moriarty, Jojo Moyes and David Nicholls.

Midnight at the Wandering Vineyard


Jamie Raintree - 2019
    They decide to complete the bucket list they created the summer they were 18, the summer that saw their friendship torn apart. But when the man who came between them all those years ago reappears, it challenges their fragile new bond and pushes each woman to confront past hurts and buried truths.

The Shore House


Heidi Hostetter - 2020
    It’s a chance to relive the carefree joy of summers past: basking in the hot sun, cooling off in the surf and enjoying long, relaxing evenings watching fireflies on the deck. But when Kaye’s son and daughter arrive, late and uncooperative, it becomes clear the family desperately need to reconnect.Kaye and her daughter Stacy have been quietly at odds for years and resentment has grown around words unsaid. Faced with spending the summer months in such close quarters, Kaye is determined to remind Stacy of happier times and why she once loved their beautiful beachside home.But both Kaye and Stacy are holding something back… and only when a heart-stopping moment on the beach puts what Stacy most loves at risk are the two women finally able to set free the secrets in their shared past.

The Beach Cottage


Joanne DeMaio - 2020
    They can spend all day on the beach, or not. Cruise the dusty beach roads, or never leave their deck overlooking Long Island Sound. Fill their itinerary with excursions on the Connecticut shore, or while away the hours in a shingled cottage. Every decision this week is theirs to make.Until it's not. Until life as they know it changes -- and suddenly the Martinellis have to face only each other. Face each other in The Beach Cottage and see what they have, or don't have, between them.

Boss I Love to Hate


London James - 2019
    2) I hate your gorgeous cocky smile, and how you don’t know me at all. 3) I hate the way you stare at me as if I was your most precious thing. 4) I hate your expensive Italian suits. 5) I hate our one-night fling. 6) I hate that you’re always wrong, but your ego is too big to see it. 7) I hate how awkward you acted, when I told you I was pregnant. 8) I hate how you crept into my heart, and how deeply you cared for me. 9) Lastly, even though you represent everything I hate… I hate that I fell for you just like every other girl you know. Sawyer West… I love you, and I hate that I love you. If only I could be certain you’re no longer the boy from college I once knew. With our baby girl on the way, could we truly make us work? If only we weren’t so different, then maybe things could be so different… P.S. - I still hate working for you. Berlin Roth

Hot Ride


Erin Havoc - 2020
    An Alpha Older Man, Younger Curvy Woman MC RomanceDARCYHis perfect frame doesn’t matter.Neither does how my body reacts to his.He’s abandoned me once.I’m protecting my heart whatever it takes.RUSSELLShe’s the woman of my life.She has always been.I let her go once to keep her safe…Now I have a second chance to show her we are meant to be.

Sing for Me (A Dark Rain/Lane Gang Novel Book 1)


Myra Wards - 2019
    He’s bossy, controlling, but has a sweet side just for me. I haven’t seen him in a year, and when he returns home from a world tour, he’s changed. Suddenly, his bossiness has my heart beating faster and my mouth wanting to kiss him instead of arguing with him. My heart The girl I can never have My best friend Emerald Lane, goddess of vocals, is the only girl I have ever wanted. Because I care about her, I never act on my urges. When I come home from being on tour, she introduces me to her new “boyfriend.” It hits me hard. If I don’t make her mine, I could lose her forever. When a nightmare from her childhood threatens her safety, I need to keep her close—close, underneath, on top, the positions are endless. This is book one in the Dark Rain/Lane Gang series. It is a stand-alone with a guaranteed HEA.

The Beauty of Broken Things


Victoria Connelly - 2020
    In an effort to stay close to her, he reaches out to an online friend Helen often mentioned: a reclusive photographer with a curious interest in beautiful but broken objects. But first he must find her—and she doesn’t want to be found.Orla Kendrick lives alone in the ruins of a remote Suffolk castle, hiding from the haunting past that has left her physically and emotionally scarred. In her fortress, she can keep a safe distance from prying eyes, surrounded by her broken treasures and insulated from the world outside.When Luke tracks Orla down, he is determined to help her in the way Helen wanted to: by encouraging her out of her isolation and back into the world. But Orla has never seen her refuge as a prison and, when painful secrets and dangerous threats begin to resurface, Luke’s good deed is turned on its head.As they work through their grief for Helen in very different ways, will these two broken souls be able to heal?

Speed


Carson Mackenzie - 2016
    Language and actions some may deem offensive. Sexually explicit content. MF. Kane “Speed” Weston, after leaving the military, returns to Black Hawk MC, the club he grew up in, the only family he has left. With his father’s spot open, he prepares to fill the position. What he finds upon his return, the military nor the MC could have prepared him for. Sami Borelli was raised in an MC. With her father being the president of the club, she’d been referred to as a princess, feeling anything but. Sami moved to Black Hawk territory when her father’s club faced internal problems, turning her into a liability instead of an asset. She met a man at a club party who changed her life, but when she went back, he was gone, only to return years later with no memory of her while she remembered everything about him. The sons of Black Hawk MC are home and ready to take the places within the club they were groomed for. What they were never taught was how to handle losing their hearts.

Frozen Over


Tarrah Anders - 2017
    He is also the CEO of Mad Designs, a company which he was born into, a revived fashion company in the city. With the upcoming launch of their summer campaign, Tyson takes notice of one of the models employed by his company. When circumstances arise to provide the perfect opportunity, he makes his move. With her he is the open, caring and attentive one woman man. However, when he learns about a side job which she has, all is lost. If Tyson doesn’t get his way, then they’re done. Too bad, he’s miserable without her. ALLISON STAFFORD was hired to become the face of Mad Designs for the new summer line. She’s beautiful and not afraid to eat doughnuts in public. When she catches the eye of the CEO, she doesn’t know how to interpret his affections. When they become an official item and Hell has Frozen Over, but it’s over before they know it, before the ice is fully thawed. ALLISON & TYSON deal with their issues, until his past catches up with them and tries to pull them apart. Will they get the chance that they both need or will they be torn apart?